Title: I Have Lived A Thousand Years

Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson

Genre: auto biography

Publisher: Scholastic

Place of Publication: New York, New York

Number of Pages: 224

Star Rating:****worth staying up late for

Summary: This is an Autobiography written by Livia Bitton-Jackson (Elli Freidman before moving to the U.S.A.). Livia writes about her terrible experience in the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Livia Bittton- Jackson, born Elli L. Freidman was a Jewish girl who lived a normal life in Czechoslovakia with her father, mother, Aunt Serena, and brother Bubi, until one day Elli’s school teacher told the class with no explanation, that the school was going to be shut down. The Nazis were going to capture the Jewish people and send them to labor camps, concentration camps or even death camps. A couple of days after the shut down of the schools Elli, Bubi, Aunt Serena and Elli’s Mother were taken to Auschwitz where Elli and her Mother were separated from her Aunt and Bubi. Find out how Elli and her Mother survive the terrible, harsh situations and conditions of the Holocaust in the book: I Have Lived A Thousand Years.

Review: Are you studying the Holocaust? Do you want to get a feeling of what a Jewish girl went through in the Holocaust? Well read the book I Have Lived A Thousand Years about a Jewish girl named Elli L. Freidman who survived the bad situations of Camp Auschwitz with her Mother.

This is a great book with lots of detail and emotion. Sad, happy, angry, etc. The amazing thing about this book is the fact that Elli survived and it is a true story. Sometimes she got lucky when something should have happened but it didn’t. I think luck played a big part in this book knowing that there isn’t much one person can do since there not even being fed properly.

One part of the book is when Elli’s Mother is being held by a female SS officer and the SS officer is about to snap her arm until Elli jumps on the officers back and yells: “leave my Mother alone! You’re going to break her arm!” Then the SS officer kicks and punches Elli hard. I think this was a good part because that part shows the bravery in Elli to stand up to someone twice her size to save her mother from more pain and possible death. This is a really good, detailed, amazing story of how a young girl and her mother use their skill to survive when things looked bleak or bad, and you should definitely read it.

* Don't Bother **** Worth Staying up late for

** Better than doing homework ***** Great!!!

*** Not Bad!!!

Reviewer: Cody M.

House:Blue-7

Teacher: Mrs. Santiago

Date: 11/22/05